EP 98- yes!!!- of THE ARTISTS podcast has Leslee Udwin as our guest. Leslee is a filmmaker who made this heartwrenching documentary India's daughter - on the 2012 Nirbhaya rape. The film garnered 60 million views right after the ban when BBC released in the UK. Post that Leslee started a not-for-profit education organization, Think Equal.. Leslee left her preeminent filmmaking career after making her Peabody Award-winning documentary India's Daughter and redirected her life towards mindset change through education. Her other works include the Bafta Award-winning film East is East, a film about intercultural tolerance. Leslee has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright) and the UN Women for Peace Activist Award at the United Nations, amongst many others.

Digs:
1) On making India's daughter
2) Need to change the mindset
3) How we think is how we act
4) All patriarchal cultures are the same
5) Why was the film banned
6) Interacting with the rapist
7) Bein a rape victim at 18
8) Starting THINK EQUAL
9) Can we teach Empathy.

Njoy.

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